High benzene concentrations can favour Gram-positive bacteria in groundwaters from a contaminated aquifer

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 526-533

  Fahy, Anne ^a   Ball, Andrew S ^a,b   Lethbridge, Gordon ^c   McGenity, Terry J ^a   Timmis, Kenneth N ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arthrobacter; Bacterial community; Benzene; Gram positive; Groundwater; Rhodococcus

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; GROUND WATER; RNA 16S;

ADAPTATION; AQUIFER POLLUTION; BACTERIUM; BENZENE; BIODEGRADATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DOMINANCE; INOCULATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; NATURAL ATTENUATION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; RNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CONCENTRATION PROCESS; CONTAMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INOCULATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS;

AEROBIOSIS; BENZENE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GREAT BRITAIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTHROBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS; SIREN;

EID: 49249095277     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00518.x     Document Type: Article

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